i would just like to tell everyone that the creator of this video blunt1984 seems like a really nice guy and it would be cool if u could subscribe to him cuz his channel and videos are pretty interesting and important, just take a look and you will like it, btw we irish appreciate u americans for not forgetting were u came from thanks blunt.
you cant win with some irish people. Im english but when ive been in ireland ive had people having a go at me because ive got a british passport rather than an irish one and for not being irish, but ive also had irish people having a go at me for being a plastic paddy so i dont let it get to me.
@Liam2621 You can't win with MOST Englishmen. Ive taken more hateful venom from "UK" posts by far than those from the Irish. The times I've been to Ireland were made splendid by the kindness I was shown. Of course, I stayed away from tourist sites where goofy Americans embarrass me with their goofy shit.
I'm Irish and I think it's a good thing that people remember their history, sure if all the paddys abroad decided they didn't care you'd get Irish criticizing them for sellin out or forgetting where they came from etc etc. The fact is you get grumpy idiots everywhere who love putting others down because it makes them feel better about themselves. I say good on you and respect to our family across the water for being proud of who you are.
You solved, while white americans are probably now 72%, for 20 years will be less for 50%, your problem, so Do not argue you Irish americans, Italian Americans, Germans, english, polish americans.....
Why should you care about your ancestors, what does that have to do with who you are? I find it strange that you could be so obsessed with your ancestors nationality that you label yourself after his/her nationality. Just because your great-grandad was Irish doesn't mean that you are somehow different from any other human being on the earth.
You've never been a part of? So if all my relatives are from Ireland, I have no connection whatsoever to Ireland. There is a good saying that says "if you are born in a stable, you don't have to be a horse". Same thing applies here. The fact that your so bitter about people being proud of their heritage is kinda strange.
No irish american is claiming to be born in ireland, where the fuck did you get that from? All of my relatives have traces back to ireland, so technically im 100% irish american. And they are not my great great grandad either, most came over in the early to mid 1900's. I dont get why you would think that me or other people have no irish heritage. I am American, yes, but I also have an irish heritage... come on man, idk why your so mad of people being proud..
what about those with irish relatives on both sides of my family? I am 100% irish american so do you not consider me to have an irish heritage? the names of my family members (last name) are hughes, curran, O'Connel and O'Neil which are all of irish descent. I am proud to be american as well as Irish so does that explain why some people are proud to irish? not all of us are 1/8 irish with traces back to africa/italy/ or wherever. I dont understand why you don't accept irish americans
and yet people criticize blacks for calling themselves african american, but white people are proud of irish and other european heritage. it's funny how white people in new zealand, australia, south africa and every where else in the world never assimliated into the local people there (unless the local people are europeans themselves). if anything, they impress their culture on the local population. hypocracy is a funny thing, isn't it?
@extrapressure I’m glad that the Americans are so proud to be Irish or anything but English, because as an Englishman I can tell you, they are not merely a disappointment but a bloody disgrace. They are more than a few steps backward and there is a nasty streak of cruelty and injustice that runs through them like a poison. They drown out everyone who never had a voice with the same venom they have for the English.
@ritchloui thats a bit far. i dont have a chip and nither does any other irish i know. this shit tarring everyone with same brush is bull shit!! lol, maybe you should have a word wih the people that are calling themselves irish that you know that have such a chip on there sholder!! and not come across as such a taring idiot on yt! :)
@loversandpeacekeeper How many Americans had English ancestors? One would think none of them did; Irish American, Native American, Italian American, Polish American, Russian American, Spanish American, German American, African American blah blah blah. Not an Englishman among them, perhaps a few Scottish American and Welsh American. Garbage, garbage, garbage.
@ritchloui i do agree, but they all haave the right to be proud, and voice it, it was hard to be irish one time, others had there struggles too, and its nice to see it being respected.
@ritchloui It's because "English-Americans" are the largest single ethnic group in all of North America. So the smaller ethnicities get "tagged" with identifiers like, Polish-Americans, to set them apart from the Brit-American.
Maybe Americans of mostly English lineage are too embarassed to admit it. After all, what have the English ever done for the past 500 years but conquer, butcher, claim other native peoples' lands for their own, etc. Shit, why would anyone fucking admit being a cunt.
@valcingetorix "English Americans are the largest single group in all of North America". are u kidding me english arent even in the top ten first is irish then german then italian then mexican and then other countries like poland and france, england has not only got a low ethnicity count in america but they havent even done anything positive for the country, so stop talkin shit england has done nothing for USA and barely no one has english ancestors
@irishanto3 wrong English Americans are the largest group next to German in the 1980s census English Americans made up the largest group in the United States at around 50 million people which at the time was 26% of the population of the United States in the 90s the U.S census introduced a new option to simply claim American ever since then English numbers have dropped from 50 million to around 30 million that's a drop of some 20 million in 10 years not possible .
@blunt1984 i didnt say the 2000 census my facts come from the 1980s and 1775 census the 1775 censua show was and overwhelming english majority of 48.7% and and the 1980s census showed that English Americans made up 26% of the total population of the United States numbering at around 50 million 10 years later in the 1990 census the English number dropped from 50 million to around 30 million it was in that census that they made American an option most the american answers on the census are english
@blunt1984 while i agree that its likely not all 7.2% American answers on the 1990 and 2000 census are English id be willing to bet a good chunk of them are due to inconsistency in the English numbers since American became an option .
@irishanto3 as for the English doing nothing good the the U.S please live with your stupidity and ignorance but don't assault my intelligence the British founded Americas 13 original states which were populated by mostly English settlers around 80% of Americas founding fathers were English including George Washington Thomas Jefferson and John Adams etc Americas law system is based on old English common Law and the governmental system is based on the English parliamentary system .
@irishanto3 and the final and most tell fact Americans speak ENGLISH why do they speak ENGLISH i'm sure i'm in for much hate for my posts but i don't care hate away the difference between my claims and those of people like you are mine are based on census data and what i read out of history books and yours are based on hatred ignorance and out right mythology that that all of America is coated in the color green .
@Deadeye012011 they speak english cuz, they did a survey to see what is the most common language in the usa the scottish and irish speak english along with the italians u twat
@Deadeye012011 first there is more irish than scots irish u idiot scots irish is irish from northern ireland nearly three times that amout came from ireland and for the rest of your figures they are a load of shit there is more irish in america than any other country its fact, and irish have done the most for the usa alongside the germans, itlalians, jews and blacks english have dont very little for the usa and all the americans know it
@irishanto3 oh and the great irish migration didnt start until after that census so there is even more irish than people know, it goes irish, german, italian, polish, mexican in the 2000 census u twat i win
@irishanto3 once again wrong German was the largest claimed in the 2000 census not Irish and i love the way you missed out that English was the 3rd largest claimed which shows your bias .
@extrapressure i suppose you are right about that. but i think we all need a sense of belonging. I remember once my uncle telling me when he went to England in the 50s that he saw a sign outside a factory which read. No blacks no Irish need apply. However someone wrote underneath it..... Who ever wrote this wrote it well for the same thing is written on the gates of hell.
A lot of the anti irish american commetns will be from english people, they all get angry when someone is proud of their roots, they can't help it, there not capable of understanding, just ignore them.
I am Irish and I am glad that they haven't forgotten where they come from you never hear of any english americans the only other group of people that are proud of where they came from are Italian-Americans
@2coinlove2 That was the most ignorant comment I've ever read in my life and I've read some extremely ignorant comments. You just took the came as the official Youtube Moron. Conrats!
If one more American goes on about being fuckin' Irish i'm gonna sceam. The English were the first to colonise the US so you would think that their would be Anglo-Yanks out there but no, always with the fukkin Irish thing
Stop your hating im fully irish born in dublin live in galway shut up let the americans say their irish they basically are irish there ancestors parents grandparents are of irish descent that means they have irish blood genetics look like irish people there just born in a foreign land but their still part of the irish entinic group.And all you fuckers saying ireland never did anything check your fucking history irish people worked their arses of building americans citys .
@2coinlove2 Ignorant fuckshit im irish we never let the germans dock in our ports you idiot over 50,000 irish men died in ww2 defending britain for fucks sake and potatoes good sterotype you fuckshit ireland came to your shithole of a country and built your cities your bridges your towns we died in your armies stop hating show some respect you fat ugly prick and corrupted your such a whats the american word douche bag.
wats wit all d anti-irish american comments 4 fuk sake....let them be proud of der heritage,half d irish cunts dont even support der football teams or know der national anthem...............Tiochaidh ar la
@gareire Yeah it's very funny that some people don't know the difference between heritage/ethnicity and nationality.
None of us over here (save the few with dual citizenship) are claiming to be Irish citizens! We only happen to be proud of where our families came from and the traditions they brought with them.
@blunt1984 Exactly! I never claim to be Irish but I do tell people I'm Irish-American and certain europeans or American mutts who have no herritage to be proud of frown apon that. How sad are people these days. Can't even leave us be and let us be proud of our Herritage which in fact makes us who we are.
@EuropeanTourism If an Irish-American refers to themselves as "Irish" they are just using that term to refer to their ethnicity in relation to other ethnic groups such as the Italians, Polish, Greeks, Germans, etc.
@blunt1984 Thats a sweeping statement speaking on behalf of millions of people. I genuinely think some of them believe that if they visited Ireland they'd be treated like a long lost relative.
As for the ones who know the difference, its a shame in an international context they are too lazy to say Irish American as opposed to simply 'Irish'.
@EuropeanTourism My point is that they are not saying they are "Irish" in an international context. They are saying in the context of the many ethnic groups that exist in the USA.
Yes, there are some out there who are pretty much "plastic paddys" who might as you say "believe that if they visited Ireland they'd be treated like a long lost relative", but that is not the belief of most Irish-Americans I've met in my entire life.
@blunt1984 Well I assure you it may seem as if it is just done within an American context to you, but I assure you they do not alter their wording depending on who they speak to often. But I suppose it's the silent majority again, the ones who shout the loudest are the worst examples of 'Plastic Paddy's'.
@SiciliansRule well by real americans you mean native americans are you because if not your not a real american i am irish mick land is that all you got you fat american twat you are such a fucking dail and yeh i agree native americans should keep america but not you.Bhaile ata cliath ar soire na behiliph.
@SiciliansRule You are, or were a fool. I see yt closed your account. Such a pity, I wanted to call you on your hypocrisy. You are obviously Italian-American with a name like "SiciliansRule". FYI: I have REAL SICILIANS who married into my family, and they are proud of their Irish AND Italian brothers and sisters!
@2coinlove2 ..lol well you just slef defeated your self for me, a wonderful example....you say ask the passport office, as if they are some sort of holy or super natural force who may decide a mans true ethnicity or linage...no they are not. They are a few men and women ticking boxes .... you are what you are....no fancy office can change that. Thank you for your supportive words and encouragement 2coins.
All the negative, completely off topic, random horse shite that been written in the several responses this video has generated will go down in history as horse shite wrote by idiots, wait actually it won't it will be forgotten and the good stuff will be remembered. Keep it on topic. If you don't like the video and have a problem with the Irish or Americans or Irish / Americans go post somewhere that concerns you and bug off. Sad really they must have nothing better to do with their negative life
The Ignorance of Ireland born people shows in this video, no American claims thmselves to be full Irish they just acknowledge the fact that they are indeed are part of the blood line. My family started in Antrim and I was born in Ireland and have since moved because of this very same thing, the people are cultural racists who can't think outside the box and really think that Irish people only exist In Ireland.
@JordoF6: I'm American and I like Ireland. It would be awesome being of Irish ancestry but I'm born in the US to Filipino parents and I'm of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Portugese and Malay ancestry so yeah. Oh well.
@2coinlove2 I know you cunts invented the flushing toilet which is no surprise since you are all so full of shit. You're very good at taking credit for anyone who happens to end up on your shithole of an island regardless of where they originate from. Look at most of the "British" singers, sports stars, actors, poets, inventors, etc that you thick cunts take credit for, most of them are not even of British origin. Now go shag some sheep you inbred Welsh prick.
@2coinlove2 just continuing on 11 US presidents have Irish decent Obama being the latest this includes Clinton,Jackson,JFK(obviously),Polk,Grant,Wilson,Jackson,Nixon,Mckinley and Reagan thats a good 1/4th of the US presidents compared to welsh 7 which includes the 2 you named along with Adams,Quincy Adams,Garfield and Bush Snr and Jr (best not to mention the Jr :P)
@2coinlove2 WELL actually the founder of jack daniels was of mixed decent (english scottish welsh AND irish from grandparents) Richard Amerike is only speculation just as in that of Amerigo Vespucci so we agree to disagree and im sorry to say the irish built half of the us along with the chinese and other nations maybe not politically as the welsh but with their bare hands :) now other famous IRISH americans would be Henry Ford whom you cant discredit his irish decent cus his father from Cork
@2coinlove2 I see someone has a deficiency in reading comprehension. I meant Americans in general invented Google and the men behind youtube. Also Americans invented your computer as we know it today. It doesnt matter where each inventor was from but were of American citizenship. Babbage invented a mechanical programmable device, i am aware of that. but Texas Instruments and men at Bell labs created the transistor. Also look up ENIAC.
@2coinlove2 we never let the nazis dock in ireland thats fact if nytin we sent good men to go off and fight them yes they were not wearing the colours of the irsh army but still 60000 irish men fought for the british army and countless for the US now you use the often usually view of ireland aswell so if the irish have no pride why do people want to show off their irish people are proud to be from this small island nation of 5million people who have contributed to the world greatly
@2coinlove2 wooow now chillout lemme educate you on what the irish have done.....now we irish have obivously brought the world guiness we have given the world yeats , joyce oscar wilde we designed the white house and sat in oval office we bulit half the trans coninteal railway in america we were one of the 1st to explore the antartic we brought the world dracula and dorien gray so ya we did ayt by the world btw hurley is an irish name :)
plus I was born in galway Ireland, yet when i was 6 months old my parents moved to the US. yet im a plastic paddy? I think most of you young Irish from Ireland hate us Americans for some reason and just hate us being associated with you in anyway. Well Im proud to be Irish-American and yeah we invented youtube and your damn computer so what ya think about that.
Why so many derogatory comments? If people are proud of the Irish (or whatever) roots, good on them. When a country is 'new', that's the way it's going to be, it's your own personal history. And isn't if great that the immigrants helped to build the country and were themselves successful? And I say this an an English person, through and through. My one criticism is that I would have liked to have seen names on faces.
What doesn't seem to permeate your brains is that in America when we say we are Italian, French, Irish etc. (or parts of those), we are speaking of our heritage and ancestry, not our nationality. Everyone over 2 years old here knows that our nationality is American. Irish Americans don't claim Irish nationality or culture, just a significant amount of Irish heritage and ancestry.
Btw, by your rules, do you consider born-in-America Eamon de Valera a plastic paddy? Uh, how about Frank McCourt?
What hypocrisy of those who so lament the coffin ships (Primordial) and yet call us Irish Americans plastic paddys. It was our ancestors, not yours, who personally suffered and survived the coffin ships (and many others died trying). Mine, and I expect most of our ancestors in the Irish Diaspora, would have kicked your smug and arrogant little asses had you questioned their Irishness. And truly, as their descendants we should do no less if you question ours. And btw, we outnumber you 10 to 1.
@Ken9143 The Irish chipped shoulder has revealed itself for what it is. Now America is Irish, its inherent hatreds and narratives are a disgrace and everyone in the world hates you. The Irish have drowned out all the voices of the oppressed with their own delusional sense of being hard done by. No matter how rich an Irishman becomes he STILL thinks he's been hard done by. We're all sick of it.
i reckon it is cool how americans refer themselves to their ancestral lineage... irish american, italian american, polish american etc... although they aren't irish, and the irish don't for one minute consider them irish, I reckon it is cool because America is a new country. We in Australia don't refer to ourselves as Irish Australian or British Australian, but it is cool though...
@vaderade i said you have a lot of sand in your vagina. and you seam like a person who doesn't have many friends. are you hostile like this to everybody? or what? becasue i have done nothing but state that i'm proud to be of irish descent. and that offended you somehow. seriously. what's your problem?
reading back in some of these posts, I wouldn't be so ignorant to think all brits have this view. Just a small minority. So don't claim to be speaking for your country. after all i wouldn't kick brittains ass, just yours
Lol @ all the hateful comments, knowing damn well you wouldn't dare say that to my face. Proud Irish american right here. go to any Irish american neighborhood and talk your shit ya cowards. you hide behind your computer. I'm in Concord, Ca. I don't hide, but you will continue to cause you're not a man
Irish Americans (there's no such thing) gotta love em'. The very same people who shout to the English "GET OUT OF IRELAND" Yet rejoice in the fact that their Country invades, occupies, and rapes other Countries on a yearly basis.
@tonester09 If there is no such thing as irish americans, why do we call blacks african americans when NONE of them were EVER born there, ever going to GO there, so. to say that we are NOT Irish americans is just dumb. we ALL are decendants of SOME coulture that brought us here and CAN be proud of that! too bad if YOU dont like it, we do..
@krazy4yellow67 You call them African Americans cus they are niggers. Now, away from that. I wouldn't even mind if you could speak with an Irish accent, had been to Ireland, had relatives in Ireland and could actually point out Ireland on a map, but we all know that Geography isn't a Yanks strong suit so the latter one would be impossible. So shove it up ya arse ya worthless scurvy dog.
@tonester09 who cares what you think.scurvy dog? hmmm thats what your mom thought when she has=d YOU! poor thing! and Niggers?? thats your father! .. oops MY irish is showing!!! hahahah ASSHOLE!
@krazy4yellow67 Yes my father is a big black rubber-lipped golly wog, who beats me with his big afro everyday. Your Irish can't show, cus you're a Yank, nawt else just a big fat round hippopotamas looking Yank. Comb your hair as well foureyes, it looks like that scarecrow from the wizard of Oz :D
@krazy4yellow67 And another thing ya rotten looking mop-haired trollope. Even proper Paddies take the piss out of all you plastics for having the cheek to say that somehow you're Irish just cus your great great great great great Grandad once cleaned in a Dublin Univercity. So shut ya bloody cake-hole ya ugly wench.
Be proud of your culture, talk about it thier is nothing wrong with that. Lots of nasty comments being made . Irish Americans have every right to be proud of their heritage why do some people have a problem with that ?. To sit and listen to a person talk about their heritage and culture is a beautiful thing regardless of their nationality, chill out people. I'm Irish and proud and love the world I live in and it's people !!
@scottiering Totally agree. I am Irish born. If your Irish American you should be proud. So if my mum and dad are Irish and Im born on a desert Island...what am I...Im still Irish. Its not a simple case of passport... its your Ancestory, unfortunately some moron's can not comprehend this, but you just ignore them, they probably know less about Ireland/Irish history than any Irish American....plus at the same time embrace every thing Amercian....complete hypocrits, makes me smile.
By the way when John F. Kennedy came to Ireland the whole country can to a stand still and the man was treated like a high king of Ireland. When I watch the St. Patricks day parade in New York on TV it fills me with joy. If people focused on positives rather than negatives the world would be a better place. God bless Ireland, America and the world..........................
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit When will you relies that they know that ? That there just proud of the place the ancestors came from and there culture and whats more there entitled too just the same as african americans, and the likes are all proud of theres and if i may ask what business is it of yours what other people think? if you dont like it dont look it up on you tube find somthing better too do with your time than starting arguements on you tube its sad...
@MegaSlayerr So what business is it of yours what i think? i ent starting a argument with anyone, i just stated a fact mate, you just started a fuckin argument
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit No what you did was state a "fact" where you knew it would start an arguement.Think about it, it would be like me going out of my way to go on to a England tribute and saying englands fairly shit ,plus there is such thing as dual citizenship you know so your wrong they can be both :) im not arguing just stated a fact mate
@MegaSlayerr it only starts an argument because people like you reply to it, and you are the only person who's replyed to it, and a duel citizeship (a peice of paper) does not mean your from two countrys, your from the country you were born in
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit You do relize you were the one who left the comment too give people the oppertunity too reply to it right and ya duel citizenship (A peice of paper called a passport wud beg too differ ) and they arent saying there from ireland merely proud of they re "Ancestors" which were from ireland thus giving them irish heritage and every right in the world too celebrate it the same as african americans and the likes.
and i dunno just a wild guess "eXtraOrdiNaryBrit" ?
emm at 3:26 thats the italian flag .. and this anoys the fuck out of me where your from and maybe where your brought up or live is your nationality you simply can't be irish american .. alot of americans forget that when the irish originally whent to america they where treated like scum and even though they fought for the americans they where miss treated and they saw the same thing england did to us was happening with mexico .. starting the saint patrick battalion that then faught the americans
Irish americans are known as plastic paddy's in Ireland and Britain, and the best way to piss of a plastic paddy is to say he is more english than irish, which 90% of the time is true
@thirdlegUK where did you get that statistic from? Did you pull it out of your ass? I am Irish born and bred and I would never refer to an Irish American as a Plastic Paddy. That term was invented by the English to try to make Irish immigrants ashamed of their roots...it didn't work.
@IrishNY1 yeh plastic paddy was made by the irish by the way, and they more see it as where you grow up, not where you were born, an irishmen will always be different to an american becasue they grew up with irish habits and language, and american who grew up in america will always be american even if they were born in Ireland
@thirdlegUK No it was mainly used by Brits to insult people of Irish descent. You are proving my point by coming onto a video about Irish Americans and calling them plastic paddies. Why are Brits so threatened by the fact that people of of Irish descent are proud of their roots? Is it because you guys don't have the same pride in yours? It's not surprising really.
@IrishNY1 the only people i know that use "plastic paddy" frequently are irish, and britain has loads of pride, Thats why we called it great britain, we have to many different roots to celebrate
@thirdlegUK Yes, you are right in fact. I'm from Ireland and we consider someone Irish if they grow up in our country, have an Irish accent and generally behave as Irish people regardless of race or background. I think it's the same in Britain. I don't believe in 'Irish Blood'. I consider many of my relatives living in England to be my 'English relatives' (they might disagree). Some of my friends at home have British, German, African, Jewish etc. backgrounds but are still Irish in my eyes!
I'm proud to be a Canadian and my parents are from Hong Kong. I'm also proud to be Chinese too XD. Let people celebrated their heritage if they want. I still have Chinese heritage in my blood. That is why we still have dragon dances on new years in Vancouver. There also Irish Canadians here too.
theres no such thing as an irish-amerian unless your parents are irish and you were born in america that makes you irish but if its something like a grandfather your not irish think about it my grandmother is german but the rest of my family are irish and I have lived in ireland my whole life so does that make me a german-irishman NO
@Stevenbfg You seem to misunderstand the meaning of being Irish-American. This is understandable, you're Irish, not Irish-American, and so you'd not know from personal experience. American is not a ethnicity, just as Australian and Canadian aren't an ethnic group. They're merely nationalities which, while each having their own culture, do not represent a homogenous group of people. Irish-Americans, despite what you may think, are Irish through and through.
i hate it wen americans say theyv irish blood irish americans are not irish they may have irish ancestors but they themselves arent irish if u claim 2 b irish know at least some of the language know the history and y make a tribute 2 irish americans wen theres irish ppl u can make tributes for
I never understood the whole Irish American craze. Everybody always says their x% Irish.
I have Irish citizenship and a passport (mother is from Ireland) but I have lived in the US all my life. When people ask me "what" I am I say 100% American, damnit. You are the country you live in. I have been to Ireland a bunch and let me tell you, America is 100x better than that little island. Despite her accent, my mother will tell anyone she is American, not Irish. It's called pride in your country.
@Tlax13, Stupid. So you are practically telling me as an African-American I can't take pride in my African culture because I happen to be born and live in America? Fuck that, If Irish-Americans want to take pride in their culture let them. It's not a big deal.
@Tlax13 Well said, my friend. I've been there too; wasn't impressed. People were very rude (while my family and I were quiet humble and not like the stereotypical tourists, as soon as they heard our accents they treated us like SHIT), weather was miserable and everyone generally had an attitude problem. Nice people here and there but it was quite obvious they were extremely prejudiced towards Americans.
I am from Ireland, Irish born and bred, and I think that it's great when Irish-Americans feel an affinity for their heritage. Some Irish people might take the piss, but you have here at least one Irishman who thinks you have every right to love your heritage, and don't ever be ashamed of it! If your blood is Irish, then you're Irish. Don't ever hesitate to be proud of it. G'wan the Irish!
the best thing is not to get into a discussion about what u are or how irish you are ireland scotland and england all have very similiar DNA before water levels changed and they all got seperated they were the same and the scottish found ireland and were the first inhabitants and the people of ireland came from different places aswell there norse or germanic or anglo saxon.theres no such thing as 100% anything. only way is taking multiple DNA tests hah hah,if ur irish be irish dont say ur irish!
Everyone loves the irish except the english. And whilst i condemn the ira, they were doing the WRONG thing but for the right reasons. The media blocked out so much of what was happening here for 200 years. No ones bloody heard of the UDA or the UVF or the UDF etc etc, groups that murdered irish/catholics. It's fine to be proud of your heritage in america. But don't act like your irish cause it drives people nuts to say "yeah in 1818 my greatgreat grandma came here" ..so you're like a 64th irish?
@AyeYirMa i agree a lot with what your saying but these days Irish arent hated in the England, the Irish were discriminated for a long time especially during the troubles but these days in the Irish are very respected more so than other nationalities in my mind it would go 1. English 2. Irish 3. Welsh 4. Scottish. you would think a lot of english would dislike the Irish because of the IRA's attacks but most people have forgot about this and there are a lot of respected commedians over here now.
@CRAiGbritain Well I was in london for a week about 6 years ago (looking forward to it btw) and the reception I got, which I put down to my northern irish accent, was so bad I've vowed I'm never going back. Tbh a lot of english still remember and still judge us because they were never told why the ira were doing what they did. They were never told what the british soldiers were doing and what it was like for irish catholics living here. Even David Mitchell says he doesn't like the irish
@CRAiGbritain cause when he was growing up he said "they were the 'bad people' who were always behind the scary things happening growing up". And yeah we do make great comics haha. But I don't have the english, I just don't like PEOPLE who embrace ignorance. I've had irish americans ask me why I WASNT in the ira... LOL
Whats the 1. 2. 3. 4.? What's that stand for? Who's liked most in order internationally? The english wouldn't be first, becaase of the association with americans and tony blair :/
@AyeYirMa 1. 2. 3. 4. thing is people who are respected more in the england. over here if you ask someone what they think of Irish people TRUST me they will like them, there is no hatred atleast where i am, if there is any hatred here the racist people dislike the pakistanis or other asians. i know its going to sound cheesy when i say this but to most people its cool to be Irish, like in America lol.
i also found out that out of 62 million people in the UK 16 million have some irish heritage.
@CRAiGbritain Lmao I know that statistic doesn't surprise me. Something like 16% of the worlds population have at least ONE irish grand parent or great grand parent. I have friends from everywhere in the UK so I know it's not a national thing to dislike people from the north, my favs are the Scousers xD I know London doesn't have a friendly reputation anyway lol Even Barbara Windsor, her great great grandad came from Cork during the Great Hunger. Tommy Tiernan did a brill sketch on irish emigr-
It's ironic that me living in northern ireland, i can't really express my love for my irish heritage and nationality. I cant bring a tricolour into town on st patricks day, i have to be careful what part of town i say my name in. i'm bombarded with union jacks everywhere and english flags, i have to sit back and watch parades of sectarians. don't get me wrong, most times irish americans are infuriating, but they've helped us a lot. they're taught what REALLY happened during the 'famine'. not us
@AyeYirMa English flags? Now that's a lie. The tricolour is a divisive flag in Northern Ireland, it has nothing to do with St Patrick as he is the saint of all christians on the island. I think you're telling porkies as well as if you live in Belfast, the St Patricks day parade has been hijacked by Republicans like yourself and is awash with Irish tricolours.
@Blueblood1873 Divisive? No see that's the problem. If anyone puts up a tricolour anywhere, it's considered offensive or inflammatory or something BAD. Yet all I can see no matter where I go are union jacks, english flags, scottish flags and 'northern ireland' flags. And no one thinks THAT could be offensive or inflammatory to anyone. St Patricks day has been 'hijacked' by mostly NATIONALISTS, who want one day to be proud of being irish without having to wonder who's over hearing them or if
@AyeYirMa Get it into your head that ST Ptricks Day is not like the 12th, it's for everyone, so flying a tricolur is divisive on that day, you don't see any Loyalist flags. He wasn't a Catholic, he's actually buried in a Protestant church. So you can't even claim him as your own. You fly flags in their hundreds on the 17th March, don't deny it. Where is these English flags.? Government buildings sometimes fly, Union flags, shock horror, we live in the United Kingdom, the GFA didn't change that
Like I said, people here use st patricks day to be irish because it's the only time they can express it safely. They do it around the world whever they celebrate it. I'm not a catholic (anymore) so I'm not really bothered where St. Patrick was buried. You don't even live here do you? I'm in agreement with you, the 17th IS for everyone, but it's obviously going to have a slightly more irish feel to it. And you don't have to go far to see English flags, don't act naive.
@AyeYirMa St Patricks day isn't for displaying Irish Nationalism its' to celebrate St Patrick who brought christianity to the island, the tricolours are there to politicise the day, nothing else. Sorry I am from here, I was born and grew up in North Belfast, and tell i'm naive, what English flags? Could you give specific examples. The Union flag and Ulster banner are not English.
I KNOW st paddys day isn't 'supposed' to be for displaying irishness. But that's what people do, around the world as I've said several frigging times. And clearly you just choose to ignore them, obvious examples are Sandy Row, Westland (you're from north belfast how could you not know that one?) They put every flag in the union flag up and no one bats an eye. Hilarious how they take the Ulster banner even though it's ancient irish but whatever. Selective vision, you have.
@AyeYirMa English flags in Sandy Row and Westland? Sorry don't think so, the flags are the Union Flag, Ulster Banner and the Scottish Saltire. Even if there where English flags, it's their own areas, they can fly them if they want, you flag Irish tricolours in your areas. They aren't in neutral areas, like the City Centre on St Patricks day. So I don't have selective vision, the Ulster banner btw is the flag with the white background, not the old one with the yellow background, you fly.
@Blueblood1873 I know I've seen them. And they are in neutral areas, around where I live is supposed to be quite neutral and a mixed area and no there aren't any tricolours where I live and I'm happy to keep it that way. I'd rather no flags at all. And don't think you have to sit and tell me what the flags are I live here I'm quite well aware of what's being flown. And the 'one with the yellow background' is the original. Not some english-flag arse licking one. Finished talking to you.
they're in a dodgy area where they shouldn't be carrying a tricolour or saying their name outloud (I know I've made that mistake before). There are 3,000 unionist/loyalist parades here every year, and every day of the year they can hang whatever flag they want and that's fine, if it went both ways but it doesn't. You can't express being irish unless you're in a certain part of town, the point of the peace process is to stop all that shite.
And don't call me a republican, being irish isn't the same as being republican, don't dare try and blind yourself into thinking that. There are plenty of irish people in the north and south who condemn what the ira did, who can't believe how the dissidents are getting on now. You don't even know who I am so don't judge me with your 'blueblood'. Clearly not.
Americans who think they're Irish are pretty much laughed at in Ireland and Northern Ireland tbh. Actually not really pretty much...they are a laughing stock.
If you grow up with Irish family in America learning how to play ITM and Ceilis seems pretty Irish to me, even though someone personally wasn't born there. Anyone who uses "Plastic Paddy" is ignorant. You can tell they have never been to America. We are not a united country. Everywhere you have your different cultures. You have your Irish, German, Peurto Rican, Jamaican, Chineese, etc.. neighborhoods where they all still get taught their native cultures. Why is getting taught Irish culture wrong
note to all other british people reading this, just accept we were assholes to the irish we treated them like shite for hundreds of years and many irish soldiers fought along british soldiers in the old days of the empire, in some senses it was just as much their empire as it ours.
i dont think i have any irish in me but the irish people are they are only people i seem to relate to, oddly.
@CRAiGbritain in all my life i have never once heard an british person ever actually admit that they did anything wrong. i'm in shock here! i've never hated the english as a national, just the ones who still think of us through the stereotypes they created. calling us white chimpanzees and printing corilla skulls in newspapers saying they were the skulls of irish people (like 500 years ago but, the 'stupid' stereotype still exists)
i bet you're 1 of the nicest english blokes out there lol
The discussion above is proof that nations do not exist within the confines of imaginary geographical lines. I am Irish born and bred. It makes me proud that people in this video considered themselves Irish. It makes me sad to think about the reasons why most of their families probably ended up there. It also makes me sad that we cant get on with it regardless of where we came from, where we are, what flag we fly, language we speak, songs we sing or drums we bang.
every fucking Irish/American video on youtube you will find a thick cunt saying your not Irish if you dont live here.well your not a real Irish person if you think that these people are usually people who have never lived or worked abroad 99% of Irish people are very proud of seeing Irish people living in other countries like America when i was walking around New York seeing Irish flags flying and meeting Irish Americans.sum who are more proud of out culture than us (real irish)
No matter what anyone says, irish americans ARE irish by blood! We are not irish by nationality, but we ARE still fucking irish!!! My great grandmother came to america in 1920 from dublin! My father's family came to america in the late 1800s from cork! So, my ancestors are the same as those of people living in ireland! tell me how i am not the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@3sheetz2thawind please get the fuck over it. every ancestor or relative you've had since then could have had german or polish or english ancestry. you've strong irish descent but you're not technically irish. i had a guy from texas called IGOR tell me his great great grandmother was from ireland that therefore made him irish.
@AyeYirMa ...look, you are NOT understanding me. My greatgrandmother is from Ireland. My mother's side of my family does have a tiny bit of german and scottish in them. but they are mostly irish. my dad's side is completely 100 percent IRISH!!! they have never mixed with anything else! and i know this! i have done my family history up and down and side to side! i know what i am! i have a vast amount of irish blood! i know i am not technically irish! i dont need anyone to tell me that!
I don't understand why so many americans are eager to call themselves Irish. I was born and raised in America but I have Irish citizenship because of my mother (from Sligo).
I call myself American, damnt. Not Irish-American. America is 10x better than Ireland so what is with all the "well my great great grand uncle came over during the famine so therefore I am Irish."
Sorry but what is this song name?
Xboxdude343 3 days ago
@GAKcarinthia get a girl so you feel better about yourself and stop putting others down you intolerable troll
bikepeddlar6 2 months ago
i would just like to tell everyone that the creator of this video blunt1984 seems like a really nice guy and it would be cool if u could subscribe to him cuz his channel and videos are pretty interesting and important, just take a look and you will like it, btw we irish appreciate u americans for not forgetting were u came from thanks blunt.
irishanto3 6 months ago
IM AN IRISH IRISH PERSON oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - cant call meself that!!!!
loversandpeacekeeper 7 months ago
you cant win with some irish people. Im english but when ive been in ireland ive had people having a go at me because ive got a british passport rather than an irish one and for not being irish, but ive also had irish people having a go at me for being a plastic paddy so i dont let it get to me.
Liam2621 8 months ago
@Liam2621 You can't win with MOST Englishmen. Ive taken more hateful venom from "UK" posts by far than those from the Irish. The times I've been to Ireland were made splendid by the kindness I was shown. Of course, I stayed away from tourist sites where goofy Americans embarrass me with their goofy shit.
valcingetorix 6 months ago
I'm Irish and I think it's a good thing that people remember their history, sure if all the paddys abroad decided they didn't care you'd get Irish criticizing them for sellin out or forgetting where they came from etc etc. The fact is you get grumpy idiots everywhere who love putting others down because it makes them feel better about themselves. I say good on you and respect to our family across the water for being proud of who you are.
toughnumber 8 months ago 9
You solved, while white americans are probably now 72%, for 20 years will be less for 50%, your problem, so Do not argue you Irish americans, Italian Americans, Germans, english, polish americans.....
SachMat18 8 months ago
Why should you care about your ancestors, what does that have to do with who you are? I find it strange that you could be so obsessed with your ancestors nationality that you label yourself after his/her nationality. Just because your great-grandad was Irish doesn't mean that you are somehow different from any other human being on the earth.
Sillmech 9 months ago
@2coinlove2
You've never been a part of? So if all my relatives are from Ireland, I have no connection whatsoever to Ireland. There is a good saying that says "if you are born in a stable, you don't have to be a horse". Same thing applies here. The fact that your so bitter about people being proud of their heritage is kinda strange.
sorealphear95 9 months ago
@Sandgrownun77
No irish american is claiming to be born in ireland, where the fuck did you get that from? All of my relatives have traces back to ireland, so technically im 100% irish american. And they are not my great great grandad either, most came over in the early to mid 1900's. I dont get why you would think that me or other people have no irish heritage. I am American, yes, but I also have an irish heritage... come on man, idk why your so mad of people being proud..
sorealphear95 9 months ago
@jhonk768
what about those with irish relatives on both sides of my family? I am 100% irish american so do you not consider me to have an irish heritage? the names of my family members (last name) are hughes, curran, O'Connel and O'Neil which are all of irish descent. I am proud to be american as well as Irish so does that explain why some people are proud to irish? not all of us are 1/8 irish with traces back to africa/italy/ or wherever. I dont understand why you don't accept irish americans
sorealphear95 9 months ago
and yet people criticize blacks for calling themselves african american, but white people are proud of irish and other european heritage. it's funny how white people in new zealand, australia, south africa and every where else in the world never assimliated into the local people there (unless the local people are europeans themselves). if anything, they impress their culture on the local population. hypocracy is a funny thing, isn't it?
extrapressure 9 months ago 2
@extrapressure Whoever criticizes Black people for calling themselves African American is either ignorant or racist.
blunt1984 8 months ago
@extrapressure I’m glad that the Americans are so proud to be Irish or anything but English, because as an Englishman I can tell you, they are not merely a disappointment but a bloody disgrace. They are more than a few steps backward and there is a nasty streak of cruelty and injustice that runs through them like a poison. They drown out everyone who never had a voice with the same venom they have for the English.
ritchloui 8 months ago
@ritchloui thats a bit far. i dont have a chip and nither does any other irish i know. this shit tarring everyone with same brush is bull shit!! lol, maybe you should have a word wih the people that are calling themselves irish that you know that have such a chip on there sholder!! and not come across as such a taring idiot on yt! :)
loversandpeacekeeper 7 months ago
@loversandpeacekeeper How many Americans had English ancestors? One would think none of them did; Irish American, Native American, Italian American, Polish American, Russian American, Spanish American, German American, African American blah blah blah. Not an Englishman among them, perhaps a few Scottish American and Welsh American. Garbage, garbage, garbage.
ritchloui 7 months ago
@ritchloui i do agree, but they all haave the right to be proud, and voice it, it was hard to be irish one time, others had there struggles too, and its nice to see it being respected.
loversandpeacekeeper 7 months ago
@ritchloui It's because "English-Americans" are the largest single ethnic group in all of North America. So the smaller ethnicities get "tagged" with identifiers like, Polish-Americans, to set them apart from the Brit-American.
Maybe Americans of mostly English lineage are too embarassed to admit it. After all, what have the English ever done for the past 500 years but conquer, butcher, claim other native peoples' lands for their own, etc. Shit, why would anyone fucking admit being a cunt.
valcingetorix 6 months ago
@valcingetorix "English Americans are the largest single group in all of North America". are u kidding me english arent even in the top ten first is irish then german then italian then mexican and then other countries like poland and france, england has not only got a low ethnicity count in america but they havent even done anything positive for the country, so stop talkin shit england has done nothing for USA and barely no one has english ancestors
irishanto3 6 months ago
@irishanto3 wrong English Americans are the largest group next to German in the 1980s census English Americans made up the largest group in the United States at around 50 million people which at the time was 26% of the population of the United States in the 90s the U.S census introduced a new option to simply claim American ever since then English numbers have dropped from 50 million to around 30 million that's a drop of some 20 million in 10 years not possible .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@Deadeye012011 Actually, you have the numbers wrong.
The largest ancestries in the USA according to the 2000 Census are:
German (15.2%)
Irish (10.8%)
African (8.8%)
English (8.7%)
There is also no proof that the 7.2% of the U.S. population that listed their ancestry as American are all English-Americans.
blunt1984 3 months ago
@blunt1984 i didnt say the 2000 census my facts come from the 1980s and 1775 census the 1775 censua show was and overwhelming english majority of 48.7% and and the 1980s census showed that English Americans made up 26% of the total population of the United States numbering at around 50 million 10 years later in the 1990 census the English number dropped from 50 million to around 30 million it was in that census that they made American an option most the american answers on the census are english
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@blunt1984 while i agree that its likely not all 7.2% American answers on the 1990 and 2000 census are English id be willing to bet a good chunk of them are due to inconsistency in the English numbers since American became an option .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@irishanto3 as for the English doing nothing good the the U.S please live with your stupidity and ignorance but don't assault my intelligence the British founded Americas 13 original states which were populated by mostly English settlers around 80% of Americas founding fathers were English including George Washington Thomas Jefferson and John Adams etc Americas law system is based on old English common Law and the governmental system is based on the English parliamentary system .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@irishanto3 and the final and most tell fact Americans speak ENGLISH why do they speak ENGLISH i'm sure i'm in for much hate for my posts but i don't care hate away the difference between my claims and those of people like you are mine are based on census data and what i read out of history books and yours are based on hatred ignorance and out right mythology that that all of America is coated in the color green .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@Deadeye012011 they speak english cuz, they did a survey to see what is the most common language in the usa the scottish and irish speak english along with the italians u twat
irishanto3 3 months ago
@irishanto3 in the 1775 American census found that the colonies were made up of
English 48.7%
African 20%
Scots-Irish 7.8%
German 6.9%
Scottish 6.6%
so no it is you that are wrong why would they have changed there language when nearly half the population of the states were ethnically English ? .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@Deadeye012011 first there is more irish than scots irish u idiot scots irish is irish from northern ireland nearly three times that amout came from ireland and for the rest of your figures they are a load of shit there is more irish in america than any other country its fact, and irish have done the most for the usa alongside the germans, itlalians, jews and blacks english have dont very little for the usa and all the americans know it
irishanto3 3 months ago
@irishanto3 oh and the great irish migration didnt start until after that census so there is even more irish than people know, it goes irish, german, italian, polish, mexican in the 2000 census u twat i win
irishanto3 3 months ago
@irishanto3 once again wrong German was the largest claimed in the 2000 census not Irish and i love the way you missed out that English was the 3rd largest claimed which shows your bias .
Deadeye012011 3 months ago
@ritchloui YOU are one of the main reasons the vast majority of the world have NO respect for the English
deech2011 7 months ago 4
@extrapressure i suppose you are right about that. but i think we all need a sense of belonging. I remember once my uncle telling me when he went to England in the 50s that he saw a sign outside a factory which read. No blacks no Irish need apply. However someone wrote underneath it..... Who ever wrote this wrote it well for the same thing is written on the gates of hell.
Emerald007007 4 months ago
A lot of the anti irish american commetns will be from english people, they all get angry when someone is proud of their roots, they can't help it, there not capable of understanding, just ignore them.
Liam2621 10 months ago
I am Irish and I am glad that they haven't forgotten where they come from you never hear of any english americans the only other group of people that are proud of where they came from are Italian-Americans
MarkFarren 10 months ago
@2coinlove2 That was the most ignorant comment I've ever read in my life and I've read some extremely ignorant comments. You just took the came as the official Youtube Moron. Conrats!
...........SMH
ProTuner06 11 months ago 2
If one more American goes on about being fuckin' Irish i'm gonna sceam. The English were the first to colonise the US so you would think that their would be Anglo-Yanks out there but no, always with the fukkin Irish thing
Tonykickass22 11 months ago
@Tonykickass22 nobody wants 2 be english simple as,ders even a cunt in me college whos english nd he said hed rather be irish
gareire 11 months ago
@Tonykickass22 I'm Irish-American and you can go fuck yourself.
Now go scream like a little bitch you fucking troll.
ProTuner06 11 months ago
@ProTuner06 Hahahahaha GOTCHA IRISH Hahahahaha
Tonykickass22 11 months ago
Stop your hating im fully irish born in dublin live in galway shut up let the americans say their irish they basically are irish there ancestors parents grandparents are of irish descent that means they have irish blood genetics look like irish people there just born in a foreign land but their still part of the irish entinic group.And all you fuckers saying ireland never did anything check your fucking history irish people worked their arses of building americans citys .
JordoF6 11 months ago
@2coinlove2 Ignorant fuckshit im irish we never let the germans dock in our ports you idiot over 50,000 irish men died in ww2 defending britain for fucks sake and potatoes good sterotype you fuckshit ireland came to your shithole of a country and built your cities your bridges your towns we died in your armies stop hating show some respect you fat ugly prick and corrupted your such a whats the american word douche bag.
JordoF6 11 months ago
wats wit all d anti-irish american comments 4 fuk sake....let them be proud of der heritage,half d irish cunts dont even support der football teams or know der national anthem...............Tiochaidh ar la
gareire 11 months ago
@gareire Yeah it's very funny that some people don't know the difference between heritage/ethnicity and nationality.
None of us over here (save the few with dual citizenship) are claiming to be Irish citizens! We only happen to be proud of where our families came from and the traditions they brought with them.
blunt1984 11 months ago
@blunt1984 Exactly! I never claim to be Irish but I do tell people I'm Irish-American and certain europeans or American mutts who have no herritage to be proud of frown apon that. How sad are people these days. Can't even leave us be and let us be proud of our Herritage which in fact makes us who we are.
ProTuner06 11 months ago
@blunt1984 So why do most Americans just say they are 'Irish' as opposed to 'Irish American'?
EuropeanTourism 10 months ago
@EuropeanTourism If an Irish-American refers to themselves as "Irish" they are just using that term to refer to their ethnicity in relation to other ethnic groups such as the Italians, Polish, Greeks, Germans, etc.
They are not referring to their nationality.
blunt1984 8 months ago
@blunt1984 Thats a sweeping statement speaking on behalf of millions of people. I genuinely think some of them believe that if they visited Ireland they'd be treated like a long lost relative.
As for the ones who know the difference, its a shame in an international context they are too lazy to say Irish American as opposed to simply 'Irish'.
EuropeanTourism 8 months ago
@EuropeanTourism My point is that they are not saying they are "Irish" in an international context. They are saying in the context of the many ethnic groups that exist in the USA.
Yes, there are some out there who are pretty much "plastic paddys" who might as you say "believe that if they visited Ireland they'd be treated like a long lost relative", but that is not the belief of most Irish-Americans I've met in my entire life.
blunt1984 8 months ago
@blunt1984 Well I assure you it may seem as if it is just done within an American context to you, but I assure you they do not alter their wording depending on who they speak to often. But I suppose it's the silent majority again, the ones who shout the loudest are the worst examples of 'Plastic Paddy's'.
EuropeanTourism 8 months ago
@gareire good point mate - more plastic paddys in ireland than anywhere else. at least irish americans care about their heritage.
seedofthepeople 9 months ago
Irish and American are two words that don't mix. Go back to mick country and let real Americans keep America.
SiciliansRule 11 months ago
@SiciliansRule well by real americans you mean native americans are you because if not your not a real american i am irish mick land is that all you got you fat american twat you are such a fucking dail and yeh i agree native americans should keep america but not you.Bhaile ata cliath ar soire na behiliph.
JordoF6 11 months ago
@SiciliansRule You are, or were a fool. I see yt closed your account. Such a pity, I wanted to call you on your hypocrisy. You are obviously Italian-American with a name like "SiciliansRule". FYI: I have REAL SICILIANS who married into my family, and they are proud of their Irish AND Italian brothers and sisters!
blunt1984 11 months ago
@SiciliansRule unless ur native american ur not american
gareire 11 months ago
@2coinlove2 ..lol well you just slef defeated your self for me, a wonderful example....you say ask the passport office, as if they are some sort of holy or super natural force who may decide a mans true ethnicity or linage...no they are not. They are a few men and women ticking boxes .... you are what you are....no fancy office can change that. Thank you for your supportive words and encouragement 2coins.
Den22theCoat 1 year ago
All the negative, completely off topic, random horse shite that been written in the several responses this video has generated will go down in history as horse shite wrote by idiots, wait actually it won't it will be forgotten and the good stuff will be remembered. Keep it on topic. If you don't like the video and have a problem with the Irish or Americans or Irish / Americans go post somewhere that concerns you and bug off. Sad really they must have nothing better to do with their negative life
scottiering 1 year ago
The Ignorance of Ireland born people shows in this video, no American claims thmselves to be full Irish they just acknowledge the fact that they are indeed are part of the blood line. My family started in Antrim and I was born in Ireland and have since moved because of this very same thing, the people are cultural racists who can't think outside the box and really think that Irish people only exist In Ireland.
PWDforlifebrah 1 year ago
@PWDforlifebrah ignorance im irish and am not ignorant? your being ingnorant right now by thinking all irish think like that.
JordoF6 11 months ago
@JordoF6: I'm American and I like Ireland. It would be awesome being of Irish ancestry but I'm born in the US to Filipino parents and I'm of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese, Portugese and Malay ancestry so yeah. Oh well.
All the same I like Ireland.
e0o9kii 9 months ago
@2coinlove2 I know you cunts invented the flushing toilet which is no surprise since you are all so full of shit. You're very good at taking credit for anyone who happens to end up on your shithole of an island regardless of where they originate from. Look at most of the "British" singers, sports stars, actors, poets, inventors, etc that you thick cunts take credit for, most of them are not even of British origin. Now go shag some sheep you inbred Welsh prick.
IrishNY1 1 year ago
@2coinlove2 just continuing on 11 US presidents have Irish decent Obama being the latest this includes Clinton,Jackson,JFK(obviously),Polk,Grant,Wilson,Jackson,Nixon,Mckinley and Reagan thats a good 1/4th of the US presidents compared to welsh 7 which includes the 2 you named along with Adams,Quincy Adams,Garfield and Bush Snr and Jr (best not to mention the Jr :P)
COG120666 1 year ago
@2coinlove2 WELL actually the founder of jack daniels was of mixed decent (english scottish welsh AND irish from grandparents) Richard Amerike is only speculation just as in that of Amerigo Vespucci so we agree to disagree and im sorry to say the irish built half of the us along with the chinese and other nations maybe not politically as the welsh but with their bare hands :) now other famous IRISH americans would be Henry Ford whom you cant discredit his irish decent cus his father from Cork
COG120666 1 year ago
@2coinlove2 I see someone has a deficiency in reading comprehension. I meant Americans in general invented Google and the men behind youtube. Also Americans invented your computer as we know it today. It doesnt matter where each inventor was from but were of American citizenship. Babbage invented a mechanical programmable device, i am aware of that. but Texas Instruments and men at Bell labs created the transistor. Also look up ENIAC.
maximx420 1 year ago
@2coinlove2 we never let the nazis dock in ireland thats fact if nytin we sent good men to go off and fight them yes they were not wearing the colours of the irsh army but still 60000 irish men fought for the british army and countless for the US now you use the often usually view of ireland aswell so if the irish have no pride why do people want to show off their irish people are proud to be from this small island nation of 5million people who have contributed to the world greatly
COG120666 1 year ago
@2coinlove2 wooow now chillout lemme educate you on what the irish have done.....now we irish have obivously brought the world guiness we have given the world yeats , joyce oscar wilde we designed the white house and sat in oval office we bulit half the trans coninteal railway in america we were one of the 1st to explore the antartic we brought the world dracula and dorien gray so ya we did ayt by the world btw hurley is an irish name :)
COG120666 1 year ago
I can honestly say that Irish Americans are the most ignorant, sheltered, racist people I have ever met.
flowerdrop1 1 year ago
plus I was born in galway Ireland, yet when i was 6 months old my parents moved to the US. yet im a plastic paddy? I think most of you young Irish from Ireland hate us Americans for some reason and just hate us being associated with you in anyway. Well Im proud to be Irish-American and yeah we invented youtube and your damn computer so what ya think about that.
maximx420 1 year ago 2
im Irish american, so what! some arrogant prick Irish want to come over and kick my plastic paddy white american ass!!! i fuckin dare ya.
maximx420 1 year ago 2
Why so many derogatory comments? If people are proud of the Irish (or whatever) roots, good on them. When a country is 'new', that's the way it's going to be, it's your own personal history. And isn't if great that the immigrants helped to build the country and were themselves successful? And I say this an an English person, through and through. My one criticism is that I would have liked to have seen names on faces.
TheAnn2shoes 1 year ago
What doesn't seem to permeate your brains is that in America when we say we are Italian, French, Irish etc. (or parts of those), we are speaking of our heritage and ancestry, not our nationality. Everyone over 2 years old here knows that our nationality is American. Irish Americans don't claim Irish nationality or culture, just a significant amount of Irish heritage and ancestry.
Btw, by your rules, do you consider born-in-America Eamon de Valera a plastic paddy? Uh, how about Frank McCourt?
Ken9143 1 year ago 3
What hypocrisy of those who so lament the coffin ships (Primordial) and yet call us Irish Americans plastic paddys. It was our ancestors, not yours, who personally suffered and survived the coffin ships (and many others died trying). Mine, and I expect most of our ancestors in the Irish Diaspora, would have kicked your smug and arrogant little asses had you questioned their Irishness. And truly, as their descendants we should do no less if you question ours. And btw, we outnumber you 10 to 1.
Ken9143 1 year ago 7
@Ken9143 Wow, a big AMEN to your commentaries. lol Way to go, you nailed it.
WolfArden44 1 year ago 2
@Ken9143 The Irish chipped shoulder has revealed itself for what it is. Now America is Irish, its inherent hatreds and narratives are a disgrace and everyone in the world hates you. The Irish have drowned out all the voices of the oppressed with their own delusional sense of being hard done by. No matter how rich an Irishman becomes he STILL thinks he's been hard done by. We're all sick of it.
ritchloui 8 months ago
@ritchloui Haha!! Ur a TROLL and not even a good one, thats kinda sad .
marcusceltic 8 months ago
@marcusceltic You're right. And hopefully everyone who's part Irish (the whole bloody world) is offended. They can fuck right off!
ritchloui 8 months ago
@Ken9143 Well said.
ScotiExile 5 months ago
irish people are so anglicized nowadays. plastic paddy's dominate modern thatcherite ireland. christy moore say's you lost your soul.
kilomeister 1 year ago
Fuck the people who say I am not Irish, If it weren't for the English - I would've been born and lived in Ireland for my whole life.
My ancestors had to move out of Ireland and come to the United States because some English asshole didn't even allow them to farm their own land.
TehSmellulare 1 year ago
i reckon it is cool how americans refer themselves to their ancestral lineage... irish american, italian american, polish american etc... although they aren't irish, and the irish don't for one minute consider them irish, I reckon it is cool because America is a new country. We in Australia don't refer to ourselves as Irish Australian or British Australian, but it is cool though...
BCSimm1978 1 year ago
@vaderade i said you have a lot of sand in your vagina. and you seam like a person who doesn't have many friends. are you hostile like this to everybody? or what? becasue i have done nothing but state that i'm proud to be of irish descent. and that offended you somehow. seriously. what's your problem?
bikepeddlar6 1 year ago 10
@vaderade well you have a lot of sand in your vagina. :)
bikepeddlar6 1 year ago
i'm absolutely proud to be of irish decent
bikepeddlar6 1 year ago 5
Ha its funny when ye "irish americans" think ye know a lot about Ireland. A true Irish person would knock you out if you called us paddys.
ps3boiy 1 year ago
reading back in some of these posts, I wouldn't be so ignorant to think all brits have this view. Just a small minority. So don't claim to be speaking for your country. after all i wouldn't kick brittains ass, just yours
MrSeanmcnerney 1 year ago
Lol @ all the hateful comments, knowing damn well you wouldn't dare say that to my face. Proud Irish american right here. go to any Irish american neighborhood and talk your shit ya cowards. you hide behind your computer. I'm in Concord, Ca. I don't hide, but you will continue to cause you're not a man
MrSeanmcnerney 1 year ago
THERE WERE NO YOUNG BOYS LEFT TO ASS RAPE, SO THEY MOVED TO AMERICA SO THEY COULD CHEW TOBACCO AND FUCK THEIR SISTER, TRUE AMERICAN STYLE !
SHITHOT5 1 year ago
you got Holland as an American.. he was from Clare, and its where he lived
MsJony1234 1 year ago
Irish Americans (there's no such thing) gotta love em'. The very same people who shout to the English "GET OUT OF IRELAND" Yet rejoice in the fact that their Country invades, occupies, and rapes other Countries on a yearly basis.
Bless em' the little fake Paddies that they are.
tonester09 1 year ago
@tonester09
Hey! I'm Irish-American :P
Kukapetal 1 year ago
@tonester09 If there is no such thing as irish americans, why do we call blacks african americans when NONE of them were EVER born there, ever going to GO there, so. to say that we are NOT Irish americans is just dumb. we ALL are decendants of SOME coulture that brought us here and CAN be proud of that! too bad if YOU dont like it, we do..
krazy4yellow67 1 year ago
@krazy4yellow67 You call them African Americans cus they are niggers. Now, away from that. I wouldn't even mind if you could speak with an Irish accent, had been to Ireland, had relatives in Ireland and could actually point out Ireland on a map, but we all know that Geography isn't a Yanks strong suit so the latter one would be impossible. So shove it up ya arse ya worthless scurvy dog.
tonester09 1 year ago
@tonester09 who cares what you think.scurvy dog? hmmm thats what your mom thought when she has=d YOU! poor thing! and Niggers?? thats your father! .. oops MY irish is showing!!! hahahah ASSHOLE!
krazy4yellow67 1 year ago
@krazy4yellow67 Yes my father is a big black rubber-lipped golly wog, who beats me with his big afro everyday. Your Irish can't show, cus you're a Yank, nawt else just a big fat round hippopotamas looking Yank. Comb your hair as well foureyes, it looks like that scarecrow from the wizard of Oz :D
tonester09 1 year ago
@krazy4yellow67 And another thing ya rotten looking mop-haired trollope. Even proper Paddies take the piss out of all you plastics for having the cheek to say that somehow you're Irish just cus your great great great great great Grandad once cleaned in a Dublin Univercity. So shut ya bloody cake-hole ya ugly wench.
tonester09 1 year ago
Be proud of your culture, talk about it thier is nothing wrong with that. Lots of nasty comments being made . Irish Americans have every right to be proud of their heritage why do some people have a problem with that ?. To sit and listen to a person talk about their heritage and culture is a beautiful thing regardless of their nationality, chill out people. I'm Irish and proud and love the world I live in and it's people !!
scottiering 1 year ago 10
@scottiering Totally agree. I am Irish born. If your Irish American you should be proud. So if my mum and dad are Irish and Im born on a desert Island...what am I...Im still Irish. Its not a simple case of passport... its your Ancestory, unfortunately some moron's can not comprehend this, but you just ignore them, they probably know less about Ireland/Irish history than any Irish American....plus at the same time embrace every thing Amercian....complete hypocrits, makes me smile.
Den22theCoat 1 year ago 3
@scottiering
By the way when John F. Kennedy came to Ireland the whole country can to a stand still and the man was treated like a high king of Ireland. When I watch the St. Patricks day parade in New York on TV it fills me with joy. If people focused on positives rather than negatives the world would be a better place. God bless Ireland, America and the world..........................
thefishboydude 1 year ago
@scottiering No you aren't Irish, you are just another plastic paddie hi-jacking the real Irish people.
Irish isn't a race, it's a nationality created by Pope Leo X in the 16th century.
As it's a term nationality only, you have no right to it as you are not from Ireland, hence why you are called a "Plastic Paddie" as you are fake.
Englanistan 11 months ago
@scottiering American Irish are plastic paddies.
ImaginedWriter 11 months ago
Plastic Irish Scum.
LoughallSAS 1 year ago
@LoughallSAS Wannabe SAS faggot
MegaSlayerr 1 year ago
IRISH PEOPLE ARE FROM IRELAND, AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE FROM AMERICA,
your either one or the other when will the yanks realise that
eXtraOrdiNaryBrit 1 year ago
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit When will you relies that they know that ? That there just proud of the place the ancestors came from and there culture and whats more there entitled too just the same as african americans, and the likes are all proud of theres and if i may ask what business is it of yours what other people think? if you dont like it dont look it up on you tube find somthing better too do with your time than starting arguements on you tube its sad...
MegaSlayerr 1 year ago
@MegaSlayerr So what business is it of yours what i think? i ent starting a argument with anyone, i just stated a fact mate, you just started a fuckin argument
eXtraOrdiNaryBrit 1 year ago
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit No what you did was state a "fact" where you knew it would start an arguement.Think about it, it would be like me going out of my way to go on to a England tribute and saying englands fairly shit ,plus there is such thing as dual citizenship you know so your wrong they can be both :) im not arguing just stated a fact mate
MegaSlayerr 1 year ago
@MegaSlayerr it only starts an argument because people like you reply to it, and you are the only person who's replyed to it, and a duel citizeship (a peice of paper) does not mean your from two countrys, your from the country you were born in
and where did you get the idea i was english?
eXtraOrdiNaryBrit 1 year ago
@eXtraOrdiNaryBrit You do relize you were the one who left the comment too give people the oppertunity too reply to it right and ya duel citizenship (A peice of paper called a passport wud beg too differ ) and they arent saying there from ireland merely proud of they re "Ancestors" which were from ireland thus giving them irish heritage and every right in the world too celebrate it the same as african americans and the likes.
and i dunno just a wild guess "eXtraOrdiNaryBrit" ?
MegaSlayerr 1 year ago
emm at 3:26 thats the italian flag .. and this anoys the fuck out of me where your from and maybe where your brought up or live is your nationality you simply can't be irish american .. alot of americans forget that when the irish originally whent to america they where treated like scum and even though they fought for the americans they where miss treated and they saw the same thing england did to us was happening with mexico .. starting the saint patrick battalion that then faught the americans
christophergowing 1 year ago
Unless born in Ireland, or have Irish parents or grand parents, you are NOT Irish in the eyes of Irish law, so give it up!!!
Stevenbfg 1 year ago
Irish americans are known as plastic paddy's in Ireland and Britain, and the best way to piss of a plastic paddy is to say he is more english than irish, which 90% of the time is true
thirdlegUK 1 year ago
@thirdlegUK where did you get that statistic from? Did you pull it out of your ass? I am Irish born and bred and I would never refer to an Irish American as a Plastic Paddy. That term was invented by the English to try to make Irish immigrants ashamed of their roots...it didn't work.
IrishNY1 1 year ago
@IrishNY1 lol its a joke you goon its not a real statistic
thirdlegUK 1 year ago
@thirdlegUK You don't say!
IrishNY1 1 year ago
@IrishNY1 yeh plastic paddy was made by the irish by the way, and they more see it as where you grow up, not where you were born, an irishmen will always be different to an american becasue they grew up with irish habits and language, and american who grew up in america will always be american even if they were born in Ireland
thirdlegUK 1 year ago
@thirdlegUK No it was mainly used by Brits to insult people of Irish descent. You are proving my point by coming onto a video about Irish Americans and calling them plastic paddies. Why are Brits so threatened by the fact that people of of Irish descent are proud of their roots? Is it because you guys don't have the same pride in yours? It's not surprising really.
IrishNY1 1 year ago 2
@IrishNY1 the only people i know that use "plastic paddy" frequently are irish, and britain has loads of pride, Thats why we called it great britain, we have to many different roots to celebrate
thirdlegUK 1 year ago
@thirdlegUK Yes, you are right in fact. I'm from Ireland and we consider someone Irish if they grow up in our country, have an Irish accent and generally behave as Irish people regardless of race or background. I think it's the same in Britain. I don't believe in 'Irish Blood'. I consider many of my relatives living in England to be my 'English relatives' (they might disagree). Some of my friends at home have British, German, African, Jewish etc. backgrounds but are still Irish in my eyes!
DavidL999 1 year ago
I'm proud to be a Canadian and my parents are from Hong Kong. I'm also proud to be Chinese too XD. Let people celebrated their heritage if they want. I still have Chinese heritage in my blood. That is why we still have dragon dances on new years in Vancouver. There also Irish Canadians here too.
publicmario17 1 year ago
theres no such thing as an irish-amerian unless your parents are irish and you were born in america that makes you irish but if its something like a grandfather your not irish think about it my grandmother is german but the rest of my family are irish and I have lived in ireland my whole life so does that make me a german-irishman NO
Stevenbfg 1 year ago
@Stevenbfg You seem to misunderstand the meaning of being Irish-American. This is understandable, you're Irish, not Irish-American, and so you'd not know from personal experience. American is not a ethnicity, just as Australian and Canadian aren't an ethnic group. They're merely nationalities which, while each having their own culture, do not represent a homogenous group of people. Irish-Americans, despite what you may think, are Irish through and through.
SlipSloop 1 year ago
i hate it wen americans say theyv irish blood irish americans are not irish they may have irish ancestors but they themselves arent irish if u claim 2 b irish know at least some of the language know the history and y make a tribute 2 irish americans wen theres irish ppl u can make tributes for
joemoin 1 year ago
@joemoin Most Irish people don't even know the language, are you fluent in Gaeilge?
IrishNY1 1 year ago
@IrishNY1 ta me i ndairire
joemoin 1 year ago
I never understood the whole Irish American craze. Everybody always says their x% Irish.
I have Irish citizenship and a passport (mother is from Ireland) but I have lived in the US all my life. When people ask me "what" I am I say 100% American, damnit. You are the country you live in. I have been to Ireland a bunch and let me tell you, America is 100x better than that little island. Despite her accent, my mother will tell anyone she is American, not Irish. It's called pride in your country.
Tlax13 1 year ago
@Tlax13, Stupid. So you are practically telling me as an African-American I can't take pride in my African culture because I happen to be born and live in America? Fuck that, If Irish-Americans want to take pride in their culture let them. It's not a big deal.
tupacqq 1 year ago
@Tlax13 Well said, my friend. I've been there too; wasn't impressed. People were very rude (while my family and I were quiet humble and not like the stereotypical tourists, as soon as they heard our accents they treated us like SHIT), weather was miserable and everyone generally had an attitude problem. Nice people here and there but it was quite obvious they were extremely prejudiced towards Americans.
82yank 1 year ago
I am from Ireland, Irish born and bred, and I think that it's great when Irish-Americans feel an affinity for their heritage. Some Irish people might take the piss, but you have here at least one Irishman who thinks you have every right to love your heritage, and don't ever be ashamed of it! If your blood is Irish, then you're Irish. Don't ever hesitate to be proud of it. G'wan the Irish!
MalignantHumour 1 year ago 2
Be proud of what you are!!
papadoc711 1 year ago
I love Irish Americans and their support for Irish freedom, if you have irish blood in you, will have the blood of a fighter
woohoo53750 1 year ago
the best thing is not to get into a discussion about what u are or how irish you are ireland scotland and england all have very similiar DNA before water levels changed and they all got seperated they were the same and the scottish found ireland and were the first inhabitants and the people of ireland came from different places aswell there norse or germanic or anglo saxon.theres no such thing as 100% anything. only way is taking multiple DNA tests hah hah,if ur irish be irish dont say ur irish!
TheMcCurdyClan 1 year ago
Everyone loves the irish except the english. And whilst i condemn the ira, they were doing the WRONG thing but for the right reasons. The media blocked out so much of what was happening here for 200 years. No ones bloody heard of the UDA or the UVF or the UDF etc etc, groups that murdered irish/catholics. It's fine to be proud of your heritage in america. But don't act like your irish cause it drives people nuts to say "yeah in 1818 my greatgreat grandma came here" ..so you're like a 64th irish?
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa i agree a lot with what your saying but these days Irish arent hated in the England, the Irish were discriminated for a long time especially during the troubles but these days in the Irish are very respected more so than other nationalities in my mind it would go 1. English 2. Irish 3. Welsh 4. Scottish. you would think a lot of english would dislike the Irish because of the IRA's attacks but most people have forgot about this and there are a lot of respected commedians over here now.
CRAiGbritain 1 year ago
@CRAiGbritain Well I was in london for a week about 6 years ago (looking forward to it btw) and the reception I got, which I put down to my northern irish accent, was so bad I've vowed I'm never going back. Tbh a lot of english still remember and still judge us because they were never told why the ira were doing what they did. They were never told what the british soldiers were doing and what it was like for irish catholics living here. Even David Mitchell says he doesn't like the irish
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@CRAiGbritain cause when he was growing up he said "they were the 'bad people' who were always behind the scary things happening growing up". And yeah we do make great comics haha. But I don't have the english, I just don't like PEOPLE who embrace ignorance. I've had irish americans ask me why I WASNT in the ira... LOL
Whats the 1. 2. 3. 4.? What's that stand for? Who's liked most in order internationally? The english wouldn't be first, becaase of the association with americans and tony blair :/
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa 1. 2. 3. 4. thing is people who are respected more in the england. over here if you ask someone what they think of Irish people TRUST me they will like them, there is no hatred atleast where i am, if there is any hatred here the racist people dislike the pakistanis or other asians. i know its going to sound cheesy when i say this but to most people its cool to be Irish, like in America lol.
i also found out that out of 62 million people in the UK 16 million have some irish heritage.
CRAiGbritain 1 year ago
@CRAiGbritain Lmao I know that statistic doesn't surprise me. Something like 16% of the worlds population have at least ONE irish grand parent or great grand parent. I have friends from everywhere in the UK so I know it's not a national thing to dislike people from the north, my favs are the Scousers xD I know London doesn't have a friendly reputation anyway lol Even Barbara Windsor, her great great grandad came from Cork during the Great Hunger. Tommy Tiernan did a brill sketch on irish emigr-
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
It's ironic that me living in northern ireland, i can't really express my love for my irish heritage and nationality. I cant bring a tricolour into town on st patricks day, i have to be careful what part of town i say my name in. i'm bombarded with union jacks everywhere and english flags, i have to sit back and watch parades of sectarians. don't get me wrong, most times irish americans are infuriating, but they've helped us a lot. they're taught what REALLY happened during the 'famine'. not us
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa English flags? Now that's a lie. The tricolour is a divisive flag in Northern Ireland, it has nothing to do with St Patrick as he is the saint of all christians on the island. I think you're telling porkies as well as if you live in Belfast, the St Patricks day parade has been hijacked by Republicans like yourself and is awash with Irish tricolours.
Blueblood1873 1 year ago
@Blueblood1873 Divisive? No see that's the problem. If anyone puts up a tricolour anywhere, it's considered offensive or inflammatory or something BAD. Yet all I can see no matter where I go are union jacks, english flags, scottish flags and 'northern ireland' flags. And no one thinks THAT could be offensive or inflammatory to anyone. St Patricks day has been 'hijacked' by mostly NATIONALISTS, who want one day to be proud of being irish without having to wonder who's over hearing them or if
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa Get it into your head that ST Ptricks Day is not like the 12th, it's for everyone, so flying a tricolur is divisive on that day, you don't see any Loyalist flags. He wasn't a Catholic, he's actually buried in a Protestant church. So you can't even claim him as your own. You fly flags in their hundreds on the 17th March, don't deny it. Where is these English flags.? Government buildings sometimes fly, Union flags, shock horror, we live in the United Kingdom, the GFA didn't change that
Blueblood1873 1 year ago
Like I said, people here use st patricks day to be irish because it's the only time they can express it safely. They do it around the world whever they celebrate it. I'm not a catholic (anymore) so I'm not really bothered where St. Patrick was buried. You don't even live here do you? I'm in agreement with you, the 17th IS for everyone, but it's obviously going to have a slightly more irish feel to it. And you don't have to go far to see English flags, don't act naive.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa St Patricks day isn't for displaying Irish Nationalism its' to celebrate St Patrick who brought christianity to the island, the tricolours are there to politicise the day, nothing else. Sorry I am from here, I was born and grew up in North Belfast, and tell i'm naive, what English flags? Could you give specific examples. The Union flag and Ulster banner are not English.
Blueblood1873 1 year ago
I KNOW st paddys day isn't 'supposed' to be for displaying irishness. But that's what people do, around the world as I've said several frigging times. And clearly you just choose to ignore them, obvious examples are Sandy Row, Westland (you're from north belfast how could you not know that one?) They put every flag in the union flag up and no one bats an eye. Hilarious how they take the Ulster banner even though it's ancient irish but whatever. Selective vision, you have.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa English flags in Sandy Row and Westland? Sorry don't think so, the flags are the Union Flag, Ulster Banner and the Scottish Saltire. Even if there where English flags, it's their own areas, they can fly them if they want, you flag Irish tricolours in your areas. They aren't in neutral areas, like the City Centre on St Patricks day. So I don't have selective vision, the Ulster banner btw is the flag with the white background, not the old one with the yellow background, you fly.
Blueblood1873 1 year ago
@Blueblood1873 I know I've seen them. And they are in neutral areas, around where I live is supposed to be quite neutral and a mixed area and no there aren't any tricolours where I live and I'm happy to keep it that way. I'd rather no flags at all. And don't think you have to sit and tell me what the flags are I live here I'm quite well aware of what's being flown. And the 'one with the yellow background' is the original. Not some english-flag arse licking one. Finished talking to you.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
they're in a dodgy area where they shouldn't be carrying a tricolour or saying their name outloud (I know I've made that mistake before). There are 3,000 unionist/loyalist parades here every year, and every day of the year they can hang whatever flag they want and that's fine, if it went both ways but it doesn't. You can't express being irish unless you're in a certain part of town, the point of the peace process is to stop all that shite.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
And don't call me a republican, being irish isn't the same as being republican, don't dare try and blind yourself into thinking that. There are plenty of irish people in the north and south who condemn what the ira did, who can't believe how the dissidents are getting on now. You don't even know who I am so don't judge me with your 'blueblood'. Clearly not.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
Americans who think they're Irish are pretty much laughed at in Ireland and Northern Ireland tbh. Actually not really pretty much...they are a laughing stock.
AbiElectric 1 year ago
If you grow up with Irish family in America learning how to play ITM and Ceilis seems pretty Irish to me, even though someone personally wasn't born there. Anyone who uses "Plastic Paddy" is ignorant. You can tell they have never been to America. We are not a united country. Everywhere you have your different cultures. You have your Irish, German, Peurto Rican, Jamaican, Chineese, etc.. neighborhoods where they all still get taught their native cultures. Why is getting taught Irish culture wrong
UberDeathTurtle 1 year ago
i hate irish americans
were irish not you
now fuk of ye wanabee shitheads
irishboxing93 1 year ago
@irishboxing93 WTF
IrishBade 1 year ago
note to all other british people reading this, just accept we were assholes to the irish we treated them like shite for hundreds of years and many irish soldiers fought along british soldiers in the old days of the empire, in some senses it was just as much their empire as it ours.
i dont think i have any irish in me but the irish people are they are only people i seem to relate to, oddly.
CRAiGbritain 1 year ago
@CRAiGbritain in all my life i have never once heard an british person ever actually admit that they did anything wrong. i'm in shock here! i've never hated the english as a national, just the ones who still think of us through the stereotypes they created. calling us white chimpanzees and printing corilla skulls in newspapers saying they were the skulls of irish people (like 500 years ago but, the 'stupid' stereotype still exists)
i bet you're 1 of the nicest english blokes out there lol
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa really? cheers for that
CRAiGbritain 1 year ago
The discussion above is proof that nations do not exist within the confines of imaginary geographical lines. I am Irish born and bred. It makes me proud that people in this video considered themselves Irish. It makes me sad to think about the reasons why most of their families probably ended up there. It also makes me sad that we cant get on with it regardless of where we came from, where we are, what flag we fly, language we speak, songs we sing or drums we bang.
sb81282 1 year ago
every fucking Irish/American video on youtube you will find a thick cunt saying your not Irish if you dont live here.well your not a real Irish person if you think that these people are usually people who have never lived or worked abroad 99% of Irish people are very proud of seeing Irish people living in other countries like America when i was walking around New York seeing Irish flags flying and meeting Irish Americans.sum who are more proud of out culture than us (real irish)
irishkerry 1 year ago
No matter what anyone says, irish americans ARE irish by blood! We are not irish by nationality, but we ARE still fucking irish!!! My great grandmother came to america in 1920 from dublin! My father's family came to america in the late 1800s from cork! So, my ancestors are the same as those of people living in ireland! tell me how i am not the same!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3sheetz2thawind 1 year ago
@3sheetz2thawind please get the fuck over it. every ancestor or relative you've had since then could have had german or polish or english ancestry. you've strong irish descent but you're not technically irish. i had a guy from texas called IGOR tell me his great great grandmother was from ireland that therefore made him irish.
when no, it doesnt.
AyeYirMa 1 year ago
@AyeYirMa ...look, you are NOT understanding me. My greatgrandmother is from Ireland. My mother's side of my family does have a tiny bit of german and scottish in them. but they are mostly irish. my dad's side is completely 100 percent IRISH!!! they have never mixed with anything else! and i know this! i have done my family history up and down and side to side! i know what i am! i have a vast amount of irish blood! i know i am not technically irish! i dont need anyone to tell me that!
3sheetz2thawind 1 year ago
I don't understand why so many americans are eager to call themselves Irish. I was born and raised in America but I have Irish citizenship because of my mother (from Sligo).
I call myself American, damnt. Not Irish-American. America is 10x better than Ireland so what is with all the "well my great great grand uncle came over during the famine so therefore I am Irish."
Tlax13 1 year ago